Our Insights

The philosophy of OC&C Strategy Consultants is to treat each problem as unique, providing truly customised solutions rather than generic packages for our clients.

This selection of OC&C's publications illustrates our ability to think creatively, generate new insights and provide a fresh perspective on established thinking.

In this section you can view and download our strategic "Insights"; short provocative pieces that we write as food for thought for our clients.

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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Sink or swim

Too many of the world's leading B2B Services firms are at risk of revenue and margin decline - and only a few are acting with sufficient aggression to pursue their next wave of profitable growth

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Flat footed

The sustained slowdown being experienced by the Global 50 FMCG giants is partly a reflection of cyclical exchange rate and commodity effects but also more concerning structural growth challenges

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Friend or foe

In Autumn 2014, OC&C conducted research focused on the use of 3rd party open video platforms by 'professional' TV players (e.g. broadcasters and content producers)

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

The new normal

For much of the past decade, China has offered retailers and consumer goods companies opportunities for unbridled growth and long term potential

Monday, 27 April 2015

In need of fresh ideas

China's largest food retailers (supermarkets and hypermarkets) have suffered a torrid 18 months and will need to transform their offering in order to recover from declining growth

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Closing the gap

This is the fifth year we have carried out the International OC&C Proposition Index, a major piece of consumer research measuring shopper attitudes and perceptions towards the world’s leading retailers

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Flat out or out flat?

The UK economic recovery may be continuing (and wages finally growing faster than inflation), but from a retail Christmas trading perspective progress was uneven

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Un-blocked

eCommerce has been THE hot topic in Chinese retail for the past few years culminating in the recent listing of Alibaba on the NYSE

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Standing out from the crowd

The speeds of change in China's political, social, technological and economic environments have made generational shifts much more pronounced than other countries

Friday, 12 September 2014

False dawn

In the toughest grocery retail conditions for a generation, it's not scale so much as fleetness of foot that counts, reveals the latest OC&C Top 150

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